I. The Degradation

The modern world has turned love into a transaction.

Romance has been reduced to swipes. Intimacy commodified into algorithms. Desire flattened into pornography. Men have been taught to consume women, not create experiences with them. To optimize approaches, not write poetry. To collect matches, not become legendary.

You were told that masculinity is a set of techniques. That seduction is a script. That love is a numbers game.

You were lied to.

What was stolen from you is older than apps, older than pickup lines, older than the industrial machine that ground courtship into content and turned lovers into consumers.

What was stolen is your mythic soul.